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Safety-conscious motor carriers and professional truck drivers embrace that goal. But in the case of the new Hours of Service (HOS) that became effective in 2020, FMCSA has discovered that measuring the safety impact of this regulation can be difficult.
The American Automobile Association (AAA) – long known for its accuracy in predicting holiday traffic volumes – has projected a 7% increase in travel volumes for the upcoming holiday weekend compared to last year.
ICSA recently spoke with Christa Vinson, the owner of MNJ Logistics LLC and 1st Quarter 2023 Single Truck Safety Award Winner.
Many carriers don’t or can’t provide their drivers the type of training necessary to improve driving behaviors on mountainous roads, so ICSA’s safety consultants got together to create a new Mountain Driving chapter in our FirstGear online driver training program.
Everyone in business – whether small sole proprietors or mega corporations – has goals. Some goals can be too high and therefore unachievable while others may be too low and too easily achievable. That statement can apply to many areas of business (and life in general) but what if we apply it to highway safety?
How are ICSA members able to qualify for reduced cost insurance and how can they keep it? It’s all about the data – your safety and membership data – that provides the metrics for our insurance partners to reduce your insurance cost.
Among the good news in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed revisions to its Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program is that the agency intends to expand its Crash Preventability Determination Program.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a Final Rule allowing the use of oral fluids in drug testing of safety-sensitive employees subject to federal drug testing rules.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on whether side underride guards should be required on new trailers and semitrailers.